You Won't Believe How Much The World's Priciest Ramen Costs

Across our great nation, ramen is known as the food staple that's reliably affordable, no matter how strapped for cash you might be. According to The Daily Californian, if you ate instant ramen three times a day for an entire year, it would only cost $140 a year. (But just imagine all those carbs!)

New York City may well be the ramen capital of America, where the traditional Japanese noodle and broth combo is taken as seriously as the finest gourmet cuisine. Manhattan alone boasts a ridiculous number of top-shelf ramen meccas—Momofoku Noodle Bar, Ippudo, and Ivan Ramen among them— that offer amazingly elevated takes on the dish. But none were as absurdly expensive as the $180 bowl at Manhattan Japanese restaurant KOA will begin serving May 2, which is laying claim to world's most expensive ramen.

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What makes this extravagant bowl by Japanese iron chef Yuji Wakiya so special? Here's the restaurant's take on why it's so damn special:

Well, for $180, it better be. Sure, it's no where near as expensive as other NYC stunt dishes like the $1,200 margarita, or the world-record setting $25,000 sundae, but it's incredible that for the price of a single bowl of super luxe Asian pasta, you could feed yourself for an entire year by eating its instant counterpart, and still have enough leftover to go KOA and buy the second most expensive thing on the menu, the Lobster Sorba Ramen.